Sliding-door bracket.



H. YOERG.

SLIDING DOOR BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a. 1914.

Patented Ju e 6, 1916.

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THE OOLUMIIA PLANOGIAIH C0 HENRY YOERG, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

SLIDING-DOOR BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed February 3, 1914. Serial No. 816,219.

To all whom 2'26 may concern:

Be it known thatI, HENRY Yonne, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding-Door Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sliding door brackets designed particularly for use upon railway freight cars, its object being to provide an improved door retaining bracket which cannot be removed when the car door is closed, so that burglars cannot force the door by prying off the bracket.

To this end the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved bracket; Fig.2 is a front elevation of a fragment of the car wall and sliding door with the bracket in place, and the door closed; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through a fragment of the car door and sill with the improved bracket in place and in side elevation.

In the drawings A represents the outside sheathing of an ordinary box freight car, and B the usual sliding door. Extending lengthwise of the car below the door opening and inside the outer sheathing is a sill G which supports the flooring F. At each end of the door opening is a post D which extends out a little beyond the sheathing to form a spacing block for the door. The door may be suspended from an overhead track (not shown) in the usual manner, and is provided at its forward end with a fastening latch 2, and at its heel, that is at the lower corner away from the latch, with a corner plate 3. The corner plate has on its inner side adjacent to the car wall a depending flange or tongue 4 in position to engage the cam face of the bracket E, as hereinafter explained.

The bracket E, which forms the subject of the present invention, is secured upon the side wall of the car at the rear end of the door opening a little below the flooring. As here shownit has at the bottom a depending shank 5, which is secured upon the rearpost D and the adjacent portion of the sheathing by means of screws 6, and at the top two upwardly extending flanges 7 and 8 setoff progressively from the plane of the shank, like the risers of a flight of stairs, to form retaining walls or flanges for the lower partof the door and the depending tongue l of its corner plate, respectively. The inner face of the lower flange 7 extends forwardly and inwardly at an incline so as to form a cam face 9, which engages the depending tongue or flange A of the corner plate, when the door is moved into closed position, and forces the door inwardly against or toward the rear post 1).

The bracket D is also formed with a swage plate 10 which extends upwardly and inwardly at an incline from the shank 5, preferably from the upper end or knee thereof, and abuts against the sill C or some other suitable part of the side wall. This plate is centrally depressed on its upper or outer side and through the depressed portion is a hole 11 to receive a lag screw 12 which is screwed into the sill or other suitable part of the side wall. As the axis of the hole extends preferably in a downward and inward direction perpendicular to the plane of the plate 10, the screw will enter the sill in a downwardly slanting direction, so that the bracket cannot be pried oil by force when the door is closed. And by having the swage plate depressed or dished about the screw hole 11, a protecting rim will be formed around the head of the screw which will make it impossible to insert an instrument under the head of the screw to pry it out.

l/Vhen the car door is slid forward into closed position the depending tongue 4 of the corner plate will engage the cam face 9 of the bracket and be forced inwardly toward the post D, and when the door has reached closed position, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the tongue or flange 4. will stand in front of, and cover, the hole 11 and the head of the lag screw 12, so that the screw cannot be reached from in front or unscrewed, so long as the door remains in closed position. And by making the bracket on the side adjacent to the car wall with a swage plate which extends upwardly and inwardly from the knee of the bracket, and securing it to the car wall by means of a screw or bolt passing through the swage plate and into the car wall in a downwardly inclined direction, it will be impossible to pry off the bracket by means of a tool inserted between the bracket and the car wall, for the only direction in which the bracket or screw can be moved is upwardly, and it would be brought to a stop against the bottom of the car door,

which is always secured at the top so that it cannot yield to an upward movement of the bracket as it would to an outward or horizontal movement thereof.

The term side-wall is here used broadly to include the sill, posts, sheathing and whaterer other elements go to make up the side portion of the car or other structure.

lVhile I have here shown a screw as the means of securing the angular swage plate to the side wall of the car, 1 do not wish to limit myself to a screw technically so called, but sh to include within that term any equivalent attaching means that will hold the swage plate to the car wall in substantially the same manner as a screw.

I claim as my invention:

The combination with a railway freight car having a side wall and a sliding door, of a bracket secured to the side wall below the door and having a retaining flange extend ing upwardly on the outside of the door and a swage plate extending upwardly and inwardly on the inside of the door, and a screw passing downwardly and inwardly through the plate and into the side wall of the car.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY YOERG.

Witnesses ARTHUR P. LOTI-IROP, H. SWANSON.

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